Re: Call to Action: Solidarity with Rojava! October 12th Day of Action and Beyond (fwd)

[robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>]

 > From: Noelle <noelle>
 > Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2019 13:22:54 -0700 (PDT)
 >
 > the anarchist kurds
 > 
 > https://www.democracynow.org/2019/10/10/turkey_assault_northern_syria_kurds_rojava

Why do they use "experiment in self-determination involving a network of
councils, communes, and cooperatives" instead of anarchy?  Does "anarchy"
have too many negative connotations?

 >  > Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2019 10:15:58 -0400 (EDT)
 >  > From: PM Press <http://www.pmpress.org/~stephanie>
 >  > 
 >  > Against the Turkish Invasion!  Call to Action: Solidarity with
 >  > Rojava!  October 12th Day of Action and Beyond. ‌
 >  > ‌ ‌ ‌ "Thousands of civilians
 >  > flee from border areas as Turkey presses assault against Kurdish
 >  > forces for raight day. Turkish forces have killed at
 >  > least 277 Kurdish fighters in a major military operation in
 >  > northeast Syria, now in its third day, Turkey's defence ministry
 >  > says...The International Rescue Committee aid organisation said
 >  > 64,000 people have reportedly fled their homes in northeast
 >  > Syria, along the border with Turkey, and warned that the number
 >  > could increase drastically."—Al Jazeera, 10/11/2019
 >  > This is the inevitable result of the Trump administration
 >  > pulling U.S. troops out of northern Syria on October 6th,
 >  > 2019. It has essentially given Turkish President Recep Tayyip
 >  > Erdoğan a green light to invade Rojava, carry out
 >  > genocide, and forcibly resettle the area. **We are calling for
 >  > people around the world to engage in protest and/or disruption
 >  > at Turkish consulates, U.S.  government offices, arms
 >  > manufacturers, and businesses connected with the Turkish
 >  > government, such as Turkish Airlines.** Since 2012, the
 >  > autonomous region of Rojava has hosted an inspiring multi-ethnic
 >  > experiment in self-determination involving a network of
 >  > councils, communes, and cooperatives, all while fighting the
 >  > Islamic State (ISIS). After years of struggle, despite
 >  > sustaining massive casualties, fighters from Rojava participated
 >  > in liberating all of the territory that ISIS had occupied and
 >  > freeing those who had been held captive in ISIS strongholds. In
 >  > an attempt to justify permitting Turkey to invade Syria, Trump
 >  > has tweeted that U.S.  taxpayers should not have to pay to keep
 >  > ISIS fighters detained. In fact, the U.S. has not paid a cent to
 >  > detain captured ISIS fighters; that has been completely
 >  > organized by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). The reality is
 >  > that the Turkish invasion of Kurdish territory will create the
 >  > conditions for ISIS to reemerge and resume operations in Syria
 >  > and around the world.  For years, Turkey has permitted weapons,
 >  > recruits, and resources to reach ISIS through its borders. Both
 >  > ISIS and the Turkish invasion pose an existential threat to all
 >  > the ethnic and religious groups indigenous to the region,
 >  > including Arabs, Christians (Armenians, Assyrians, Chaldeans,
 >  > and Syriacs), Turkmens, Chechens, Alevites, and Yazidis. Many of
 >  > these groups have gained a voice in their own lives for the
 >  > first time, yet now face massacre at the hands of the Turkish
 >  > military and the jihadists. Turkey’s invasion of
 >  > Rojava sets a new precedent for military aggression, ethnic
 >  > cleansing, and the destruction of egalitarian and feminist
 >  > experiments like the one in Rojava. It sets the stage for more
 >  > bloodshed and oppression everywhere around the world, paving the
 >  > way for ethno-nationalist autocrats like Trump, Erdoğan,
 >  > Bashar al-Assad, Jair Bolsonaro, and Vladimir Putin to dominate
 >  > world politics for generations to come. To keep silent is to be
 >  > complicit. The Rojava Solidarity Committee Europe has joined
 >  > organizers in Rojava in calling for a day of action on October
 >  > 12th, against the Turkish invasion. See planned actions or add
 >  > yours HERE. #Riseup4Rojava Read more from CrimethInc. Learn
 >  > about The Kurdish Freedom Movement and the Revolution in Rojava
 >  > Listen to Havin Guneser on Against the Grain